Ludwig von Schröder (Luftwaffe)

Ludwig von Schröder
Born12 September 1884
Kiel, German Empire
Died28 July 1941(1941-07-28) (aged 56)
Lychen, Nazi Germany
Allegiance German Empire (1903-1918)
 Weimar Republic (1918-1933)
 Nazi Germany (1933-1941)
RankGeneral der Flakartillerie

Ludwig Karl Hermann von Schröder (12 September 1884 – 28 July 1941)[1] was a Luftwaffe General who served as the second Military Commander in the Territory of the Military Commander in Serbia.[2][3]

As the military commander in Serbia, on 31 May 1941 he ordered the registration of the Jews and Gypsies, who had to be registered and carry a yellow armband as a means of identification.[1] This order also contained a ban on the free exercise of professions and exclusion from the public service and private companies.[4] This was followed by the command of the military administration to do forced labor.[4] The Nazi measure to register Jewish assets was also carried out to facilitate the later "aryanization" (de-Jewification).[4] With these orders by Schröder, anti-Jewish persecution measures were standardized in the entire occupied Serbia.[4] Schröder died in the Hohenlychen SS hospital, where he had been transported on 23 July after an airplane accident in Belgrade.[2][5]

References

  1. ^ a b "Lexikon der Wehrmacht -". www.lexikon-der-wehrmacht.de. Retrieved 2023-03-01.
  2. ^ a b Shepherd, Ben (2012). Terror in the Balkans : German armies and partisan warfare. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press. p. 80. ISBN 978-0-674-06943-5. OCLC 794004256.
  3. ^ Browning, Christopher R. (2004). The origins of the Final Solution : the evolution of Nazi Jewish policy, September 1939-March 1942. Jürgen Matthäus. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. p. 334. ISBN 0-8032-0392-6. OCLC 54860099.
  4. ^ a b c d Walter Manoschek: Gehst mit Juden erschießen?, erschienen in Vernichtungskrieg - Verbrechen der Wehrmacht 1941 bis 1944, Zweitausendeins, 1995, ISBN 3-86150-198-8, S. 39f.
  5. ^ Kroener, Bernhard R.; Muller, Rolf-Dieter; Umbreit, Hans (2000). Germany and the Second World War: Volume 5: Organization and Mobilization of the German Sphere of Power. Part I: Wartime Administration, Economy, and Manpower Resources, 1939-1941. OUP Oxford. p. 95. ISBN 9780191606830.